Grand National

[ynnafymmi]

The hooray-henry scum of the earth disrupting the Peoples Race.Should the mumsies and popsies of these aerosols demand their little poppets get a life or get a real job?

[MissTerious2]

Im with fiveleaves and Divegirl on this.

[fitdarren]

So am I, three beautiful horses dead already !! Every year it's the damn same. I loathe the Grand National - nothing grand about it!

[ynnafymmi]

@[email protected] you pair Vegans,Vegetarians?If so,i agree with you.But if you have ever ate meat in your lives you are a pair of hypocrites.

[MissTerious2]

Not vegetarian. Its natural for humans to eat meat just as other animals eat other animals what i hate is human animals forcing animals to do things for human enjoyment and finacial gain. It's no better than bear baiting, cock fighting.

[MissTerious2]

And that's not hypocritical!

[THECORBYLOON]

Can meat-eaters not show concern for the welfare of horses?

Does it not make sense for a personal opinion to change when the information or evidence upon which that opinion is based, changes?

You hate the SNP and those who support them yet you have voted for an SNP MP in the past.

Does that not make you a hypocrite in your world?

[ynnafymmi]

I hate the SNP?I certainly have a distaste for all nationalists such as the SNP.I dont hate them.

[andres]

We don't have to eat meat to survive.

[trainboy]

I watched it but don't really like to see horses jump. Very dangerous for riders and animals

[DTCwordfan]

But Humans have eaten meat since the species came forward....it's perfectly natural. I'm not going to munch plants - as research has shown many of them cry when under distress. Poor things and they can't even make a break for it in trying to run away.

[MissTerious2]

I agree Andrez but we have evolved to eat meat. We have the teeth to eat meat and i see no problem with doing what other animals do. We are not special. I must admit to cutting down on meat and paying more for meat that is not factory farmed. But i dislike it when vegetarians preach at every opportunity. I think the Grand National is cruel as do many others.

[bhg481]

Can somebody please explain why the horses which have lost their riders don't just stop. If racing is so hateful to them they would take the chance to stop as soon as there was no-one on their back making them race.

[MissTerious2]

Horses naturally run with other horses, not race them or jump over things they dont want to.

[bhg481]

At one point yesterday there was a bare horse in the lead and also riderless horses jumping fences.

[237SJ]

Horses are flight animals. Their instincts think they are running away from something and they run with the herd. They can race each other as well as anyone who has ridden in a group would tell you.

[Ken4155]

I'd love to hear Mick Fitzgerald reading your sentence out loud, bhg. :-)

For those not in the know, MF has a very broad Irish accent and his pronunciation of horse is a tad comical. So the 'bare horse' reference would have been fun to listen to.

[ichkeria]

I have nothing against horse racing - far from it: although I'm not that interested in it, I agree with most of the comments in support of it.
I did watch yesterday's race but every year I like it less. It's a bit of a freak show really: the Cheltenham Gold Cup on steroids, with more horses, bigger jumps, longer course, and of course everyone has a flutter on whatever horse they hope will survive (literally) much further than the first fence. "The people's race" is a term I have heard more often in recent times.
I personally would shed no tears if it was binned, despite also having little time for many of the protesters.

[bhg481]

Here's an interesting slant on it:

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/horseracing/1758797/Grand-National-protest-Hill-Sixteen-death-Sandy-Thomson

[andres]

MissTerious -- I was only stating a fact not decrying meat eaters.
bhg--- I did wonder that when I saw one of the loose horses jumping over the fences on its own. Maybe they have an instinct and wouldn't attempt to jump one that was too high. Plus they have been trained to jump over the fences. The National fences were altered a few years ago to make them less hazardous.

[ynnafymmi]

Aye and if these same upper-middle class hooray henrys try to disrupt the Scottish Grand National next week,being lifted by the cops will be the least of their problems.